Meanings
- not comparableContaining a sentence of condemnation.
I had cut my knuckles against the pale young gentleman's teeth, and I twisted my imagination into a thousand tangles, as I devised incredible ways of accounting for that damnatory circumstance when I should be haled before the Judges.
1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 197Synonyms: condemning, disapprobatory, reprehensive, censorious, condemnatory, condemning, disapprobatory, disapproving
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveContaining a sentence of condemnation.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivethreatening with damnation
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Origin
- Latindamnatorius
- Englishdamnatory
From Latin damnatorius, corresponding to damn + -atory.
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